Gay ‘marriage’ a ‘sign of the apocalypse’: Russian Patriarch
MOSCOW , July 22, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In his Sunday sermon this weekend in Kazan Cathedral in Moscow , Patriarch Kirill , Primate, of the Russian Orthodox Church , warned against the extraordinary rise in many western countries of the homosexualist movement. Kirill said that the trend of legalizing “gay marriage” is “a very dangerous sign of the apocalypse.” It “means people are choosing a path of self-destruction,” he said. He said he supports the recently passed national ban on homosexualist propaganda that has prohibited the Gay Pride festivities that have become a prominent feature of national life elsewhere. Patriarch Kirill “Lately, we have enormous temptations, when a number of countries opting for sin is approved and justified by the law, and those who, acting in good conscience, are struggling with such laws imposed by a minority, being repressed,” Kirill said. He added that everything must be done to prevent the approval of sin “on the spaces of Holy